Audio files of Macon County residents Cayce Russell and Donnie Russell recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. Accompanied by his wife Donnie, Cayce Russell, a well-known banjo player, singer, and storyteller, provides a...

General Orders No. 48, charging and convicting Lewis S. Hodges, a citizen of Pulaski, Tenn., of disloyalty and harboring guerillas. Hodges was sentenced a fine of $1500 dollars and ordered imprisoned "until said fine is paid." The orders are signed...

Certificate to Nashville Banner from Nashville Rotary Club for the first subscription made to the York Farm Fund. The Banner had the honor of "starting the ball rolling" with the donation of $50. Subsequently nearly every Banner employee made an...

Officer from the Tennessee State Guard standing at the front of the room. He has a rifle balanced on the lecturn and a target propped behind him that reads "Today - The Bull's Eye; Tomorrow - The Enemy."

Cut 29 through the breastworks east of White Bluff. The Nashville & Northwestern Railroad chartered in 1852 but not complete by 1861 . After Federal occupation of Nashville, the railroad was extended west to Johnsonville on the Tennessee River. The...

Volunteer enlistment for Tilman Hurst of Sevier County, aged nineteen and occupied as a farmer. He volunteered on August 1, 1863 to serve as a soldier in the Army of the United States of America. Signed by George W. Gorman, Co. I, 2nd Tenn. Cav.,...

Broadside reads, "Ex-President Johnson Has accepted an invitation to address the people of Lincoln County, at Fayetteville, On Tuesday, July 13th 1869. Come hear him! Printed at the Observer Office, Fayetteville, Tenn."

Bishop's Cumberland Minstrel Show photograph. Inscription on the back reads: "Bishops Cumberland Minstrels, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1864." Thomas Brigham Bishop was born June 29, 1835, in Wayne, Maine. At the age of 16, he began studying music. He...

The same night he was here I had a sick soldier-one of Morgans men, and a comrade who attended him. The name of the sick one was Rice-he was 15 years of age. We have bread & meat-wheat coffee & sassafras tea-a little milk & a very little butter....

Nan Ross standing in front of a Crazy quilt. The quilt was made between February and December 1898 by Nan, Mattie, and Sue Ross and their mother Elizabeth Charles Ross. It has the marriage date of Tom and Elizabeth Ross as well as the initials of...

Capt. J. W. Irwin, 1st Tenn. Cav, CSA in "Braggs Army" wrote that he was glad to learn of Baxter's recovery from his "frightful wound." Irwin lists the situations of several officers, some still prisoners. He said Baxter was right to "take...

This case holds images of Capt. William Howse Sikes, Co. E, 45th Tenn. Inf., CSA, (1834-1892) and his wife, Bettie Thompson Sikes (1844-1884). They were married after the Civil War on December 18, 1866. Capt. Sikes' service record indicates that he...